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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by mensetmanusman on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:34PM (#28135594)
China was supposed to start overtaking the US, but the one child policy knee-capped that route. Now their workforce is getting much smaller and the burden of care for the elderly is growing fast.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by oblio on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:53AM (#28139259)
> workforce is getting much smaller

"Much smaller" will still be about 3x the US one. If that's your best bet, it's not a good one :-D

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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:59PM (#28135861)
Unless you count farmers as part of the workforce, otherwise China will not see a reduction of their workforce for 10-15 years.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by tbihl on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:01PM (#28136336)
Why not count farmers as part of the workforce?
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:22PM (#28136481)
Because the amount of farmers is mostly decoupled from total agricultural output for industrial societies until you hit ~2%. So they're not really productive in the way normal workers are.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by eunos on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:15PM (#28136432)
Farming as percentage of workforce is still huge in China. Higher than countries with similar GDP per capita. Urbanization is also not high enough.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by lotsofpulp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:22PM (#28136816)
Based China’s leadership’s track record, they do not seem like they will hesitate to reduce that burden if necessary.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by hellbannedguy on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:46PM (#28136985)
Didn't they just lift that?
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by tjpnz on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:57PM (#28137416)
They did but the results won't have any immediate impact. Some have argued that it was done too late.
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